Drawn to Rome, Part 6: Goodness (#494)

Sam stands in the shadow of Mordor and says it plain: there is some good in this world, and it is worth fighting for. That sentence does something to a person. It raises the old question the materialist world has never quite answered—where does the idea of goodness even come from, and why does it make a claim strong enough that we keep going when every calculation says turn back? The natural moral law is written on the heart; a law implies a lawgiver; the ache for a goodness that costs something is not a malfunction but a compass. The Catholic claim is that the Good did not wait for us to climb to him. He came down—through a girl’s yes, lived as a man, died without retaliating, and rose so that the last word would not belong to cruelty. For those who have felt the pull, and the glimpses that enlarge rather than diminish, the trail does not end in a private preference. It leads to a living body that has kept teaching the same dignity, raising the same heroes, and setting a place at the table. The only question left is the one Mary answered.

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